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<span class=large>ECCLESIASTES</span><br/> OR, THE PREACHER
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CHAPTER 8
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None have power to avoid death—It shall not be well with the wicked; he turns to pleasure and cannot find wisdom.
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Who</span> <i>is</i> as the wise <i>man?</i>  and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?  a man’s wisdom maketh his face to <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 50: 24; D&C 84: 45.">shine</a>, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
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I <i>counsel thee</i> to keep the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Citizenship; TG Governments.">king</a>’s commandment, and <i>that</i> in regard of the oath of God.
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Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
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Where the word of a king <i>is, there is</i> power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
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Whoso keepeth the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 20: 18.">commandment</a> shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/8/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Time.">time</a> and judgment.
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&#182; Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man <i>is</i> great upon him.
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For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
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<i>There is</i> no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither <i>hath he</i> power in the day of <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 6.">death</a>: and <i>there is</i> no discharge in <i>that</i> war; neither shall wickedness <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/8/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Deliverance.">deliver</a> those that are given to it.
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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: <i>there is</i> a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
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And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this <i>is</i> also vanity.
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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 98: 2.">speedily</a>, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/8/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 8: 15 (13-15).">set</a> in them to do evil.
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&#182; Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his <i>days</i> be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 1: 20 (7-20); D&C 1: 9.">well</a> with them that <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/8/12b" mark="b" type="C" title="Isa. 3: 10; TG Reverence.">fear</a> God, which fear before him:
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But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong <i>his</i> days, <i>which are</i> as a shadow; because he <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/13a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR is not reverent before God; Jer. 44: 10 (10-11); D&C 10: 56.">feareth</a> not before God.
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There is a <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a> which is done upon the earth; that there be <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/8/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 7: 15; Mal. 3: 14 (14-18).">just</a> <i>men,</i> unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked <i>men,</i> to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also <i>is</i> vanity.
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Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
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&#182; When I applied mine heart to know <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 26; D&C 42: 68.">wisdom</a>, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also <i>there is that</i> neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
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Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the <sup>a</sup><a href="eccl/8/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 3: 11.">work</a> that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek <i>it</i> out, yet he shall not find <i>it;</i> yea further; though a <sup>b</sup><a href="eccl/8/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 28; D&C 76: 9.">wise</a> <i>man</i> think to know <i>it,</i> yet shall he not be able to find <i>it.</i>
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